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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

A case showing the liability under which
business men place themselves by furnish
ing to mercantile agencies statements OF
their financial condition, has just been con-
cluded in the U. s. district court at Mad
ison, Wis. Charles +. kellogg & Co. ofChi-
cago sold to Frank L. Powers Of Finnemore,
Grant Co., Wis. $500 worth ofgoods, ba sing
their belief on the solvency OF Powers on a
statement which the latter had himself
furnished to the Bradstreet Mercantile
Agency that his assets aggregated IS, 500,
and his liabilities $4,000. Powers subse.
quently failed, and it then developed that
at the time he made the statement to the
mercantile agency his liabilities equaled or
exceeded his assets. Thereupon kellogg &
Co. had Powers arrested for obtaining
goods under false pretcnses. Judge Bum
in his charge to the jury said:
A person furnishing information to
mercantile agency can have no other mo-
tive than to enable the agency to commu-
nicate such information to persons who
may he interested in obtaining it for their
guidance in giving credit to the party and
II the merchant furnishes to such an agen.
cy wifully false statement, there is no
reason why his liability to any party de-
frauded by those means should not be tho
same as if he made false representations
directly to the party injured.
A verdict was therefore rendered for the
plaintiff and judgment entered thereon.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
AcqulttAl OF frank Mead.

Frank Mead Vi Mandnn, charged with
the murder OF Frank Farnsworth OF the
same place, at the Merchants Hotel, St.
Paul. in. September last, was acquitted at
st.. Paul after trial OF nine days, six Of
which were taken in endeavors to get a
jury. The state WAS represented by Attof.
ney General Clapp and District Attorney
Eagan. Gov. Davis and W. w. Irwin were
the counsel for Mead.
The testimony for the defence was unex-
t'ectetlly strong, especially in regard to
provocations and also rs raising Il reason
able doubt whether the trigger Of the fatal
pistol was really pulled by Mead, both hav-
ing hold OF tho weapon at the same time
during the melee.
But four ballots were taken by the jury
On the formal ballot the verdict was ten
Tor acquittal one for manslaughter and
one for murder in the first degree. The
two succeeding ballots two votes were for
u verdict OF manslaughter, but on the
fourth and final ballot twelve votes were
cast for acquittal. Mr.. Mead positively
declined to be interviewed or express any
opinion as to tho trail or its result.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
Parncll Sometimes Goes q Fishing,

A London cable to the Brooklyn Citizen
says: The popular view OF MIR. Parnell's
recent visit to Ireland regards him as dclv-
ing among boxes full OF old letters, unearth-
ing documents with the dust OF years upon
them and weighed down with Indignation
and Il passionate desire to be :.veng-
ed on his malignant adversaries.
Nothing could be farther from
the truth. He has simply been fishing. A
reporter was sent to him from the Free
mans Journal in hot haste to consult him
on an important matter. Mr.. Parnell was
not at home. Nobody knew where he WAS
At last the reporter got a clue and dIscov-
cred him returningfrom his placid pastine,
with rod over his shoulders and a well
filled basket on his back, utterly needless
OF the fact that England was ringing with
cries and counter cries OF his name His
enemies would, Of course. point to this as
evidence that he is a complete hyprocrite
His friends know he is only complete an
n1a
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
Miscellaneous News Items.

The following pensions have been grant,
ed: Minnesota Orisinals: j. Rosolack,
Elgin; F.S. Sawyer, New York Mills. In.
crease: j. NJ. Stevens, Chenille. Reissue:
w. Whitford, Henderson; J. d. Winters,
Candy. Dakota Increase: J. w. Weiss,
Watertown; W. G. Cook, Bijou Hills; j.
Gilbert Huron.
The preliminary examination OF f. T.
III. Simons, late manager OF the Hotel Del
Monte, charged with having set the hotel
ON fire, concluded at Monterey, Cal. tie
was held in $4,000 BAIL
The following is given us Il list OF men
who were indicted by the United States
grand jury at st. Louis, for committing
election frauds last fall: State Sena,
tor +. II. Ketchum, Central Com
ritteeman James Carol, Deputy Sher-
If Conner, Supervisors John Chamber
lin and Robert f. Lee, ex-delegate OF the
municipal assembly, Peter Morrissey Depu-
ty Constables james Conway and Andrew
Bloom, William Borgess., Fred j. Leinert,
Patrick L. Golden and Henry Mutually.
Private advices from Paris have reached
Baltimore that Cardinal Gibbons, who was
not expected to sail Tor America until the
latter part Of August. will return ut once
Ostensib|y the motive for this sudden re-
turn is illness. but there are other reas ons
OF the American archbishops do not ap-
prove the cardinals course in regard to
the Knights OF Labor, and a council OF
archbishops will be called to meet the car
dinnl in that city and discuss the question.
The certainty OF more railroads to Bis
marck, OAK, this year, has added an i'm
petus to real estate.
David Preston, the late Michigan proh-
bition leader, left u fortune OF $500, 900.
James Hit, a homesteader living alone
on his farm, was burned to death at Bay
field, WIS, in his house.
Fred Stole, arrested in Cleveland for the
murder Of Maggie Mccarthy. has been dis
charged from custody, having proved his
innocence.
James D. Westcot, ex-associate Justice
OF the Florida supreme court, died at Tai
lahassee. He was a son Of Florila's first
United States senator.
A woman named Elmira S. Lenker, of
Snowvlllc. Pulaski county, Virginia, was
ARA igned for the distribution OF obscene
matter through the mails. She brazcnly
admitted every allegation against her.
postofiice inspector, through his decoy
correspondence, were recognized as eenu-
inc. Their character cannot be described.
The commissioner remanded her to jail.
Ex-Congressman Heard of Missouri, who
has been critically i'll at Washington, is re-
covering.
Postofiices established: Dakota -Vo.
lin. Yankton county. Minnesota
-Finlayson, Pine county; Loretto,
Henncpin county. Wisconsin-RoseL Lawn,
Shawano county. Postmasters commits.
stoned: Dakota-Devils Lake, H. G. Ras.
mussen. olIey, j. NJ. Tanner; Peosta,
J. Kelley; Perlee. j. X. Bates. Minnesota
New Canada, F. Lanoux. Wisconsin,
East Bristol, G. T. Helm.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

, The new brigadier generals career
Wesley Merritt-has from the first
been q very remarkable one. AL
though he graduated from the Military
Academy only during the summer
preceding the civil war, he rose before
its close to be chief of Sheridan's cav.
airy corps, about 10000 strong, in
the Shenandoah valley, and was one
OF the regular officers who received the
commission of major general OF VOL
unteers tor specific services expressed
in the wording of the commission. He
also received no fewer than six bre.
vets, from major up to major general,
for gallant and meritorlous services in
specified operations, all between the
battle OF Gettysburg and the surrend-
er at Appomattox.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
Ole0 Not . Savory Compound.

Mr.. &c Imam, commissioner of agriculture,
says: Oleomargarine will be treated in the
next bulletin from the agricultural depart
ment, and the people OF this and other
countries will receive full and explicit di-
rections how to detect the presence of!deIete-
rious matter in this luxury. Even the car
casses OF horses, dogs, and swine had been
utilized in the manufacture of oleomarga-
rine, and the manufacturers were not par
ticul'r about the condition or age of the
meat and bones, either.
had a personal experience at
my home in st, Louis when l went to a
butcher shop to get some meat for several
hunting dogs that I kept at the time. In
the refuse barrel at this place l often saw
maegots, and fy-blown meat was very
conspicuous. When asked the proprietor
what he intended to do with such material
he said it was intended for q butter fac.
tory. By the use OF acids and other chemi-
cal preparations the manufacturers OF
counterfeit butter are enabled to destroy
all offensive odors, and some OF them use
about one fourth pure butter to give their
wares good appearance and taste.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

The city OF Pittsburg, since the gen.
eral use OF naturalsas, does not think
so much OF the coal itself as formerly.
The Post OF that city says: "As the
big fleet goes down stream with it's l e.
600, 900 bushels OF coal, the people OF
Pittsburg can afford to shed a tear OF
sympathy for the unfortunate COM
$3.50 ,'.o-. -,.~
dirty, sooty stuff for fuel' If the nat
ural gas gives out some time, as many
predict it will, the Pittsburgans will be
very glad to return to their first love.
dirty md sooty" as it is.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
Cardinal Manning ON Labor.
In a Forthcoming newspaper article Car
dinal Manning will aav.

In a Forthcoming newspaper article Car
dinal Manning will say:
Unless the rights OF labor can be denied,
the liberty OF organization to protect them
and the freedom founded upon them can
notbe denied. Tow ards the end of the
last century the doctrines ofpolitical econ
omy under the plea OF free contract, broke
up the old relations between the employer
and the employed, and the conflict be.
tween capital and labor then became per-
petual: The power OF capital is all but
irresistible, for labor must work for the
bread OF life. Hunger lays the necessity
upon them OF laboring for the sake OF their
homes and themselves. When thelaw ccas-
es to intervene organizations for mutual
defense straightway arise. The Knights
OF Labor and the British trades unions
represent the rights OF labor and the rights
OF association for its defense. The free
dom ofcontract hardly exists. 1t is pure.
~ the church's office to protect the poor
human comm onwealth.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
Italy in Good Condition

Sir Charles Dilke's fifth article in the
forthcoming Fortnightly Review will repre-
sent the position of European politics in
Italy. 1t is long, learned paper, conclud-
ing with the following summary:
As Great Britain has her enormous re.
probabilities and her present unreadiness
to meet them; as Russia has nihilism and
corruption; as Austria has socialism and
race difficulties; as Germany has her weak
military position between five first-class
military powers; as France has her
traditions OF financial wastefulness and
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
Secretary Fairch.ld has determine,

Secretary Fairch:ld has determined
to protect claimants before the treas
ury department from the extortionate
demands OF attorneys. A few days
ago he ordered the cancellation of q
check issued in payment OF the back
pay and bounty ola soldier which was
held by an attorney in orderto secure
what the secretary considered an ex-
brilliant and illlegal fee. The secretary
then directed that a duplicate check
be lss ned and sent direct to the claim
ant. He says that this course will be
adopted in all cases where the attor-
ney asks more than fair compensation
for his legal services.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

That college work is not injurious
to female students, Dr.. Lucy NJ. Hall
says in the Popular Science Monthly
she knows from personal daily obser.
walton. Young women in college are
i'll far better health than young wom-
en- in society, are healthier as Sem
lois than they were as Freshmen, and
average fewer cases OF illness than are
shown in mems colleges, while statis-
tics show that they enjoy sum total
OF 20 per cent. better health than the
average woman.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

: Mass achusetts has long been fore.
most among the Suites in the excellence
OF her schools and in the attention paid
to public education. Yet it appears
that there are no less than l21,572
persons in the Com monwealth of ten
years OF age or over who are unable to
read and write. These are not uniform
~ distributed throughout the State,
but are confined mostly to the manu-
featuring centres, more than nine
thousand being found in Fall River
alone.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

Although the issue OF the new silver
certificates Of the smaller denonina.
t'ons mas already exceeded $4,000,
900, the demund for them still contin.
ues to be fully as large as the Treas
ury Department can supply. In no
portion OF the country is there an
evidence of an over.supply; nor have
the certificates sent to the interior
as yet begun to float back to the
money centres in any appreciable
quantities.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

Within about five months past eighty
new banks joined the national system.
OF course most OF these new banks
are small institutions, over half of
them having only about $4,000
capital each, and very few of them
having capital reaching 100000.
These small banks, however, render a
very important service to the bust
ness interests OF thier respective 10.
calltles and to the country at large,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
Opera House Burned ut Des Moines.

Fosters opera house burned Friday
evening. the 2"th ult., and only the side
walls and front offices remain. It was one
OF the finest theatres in the state. The fire
covered had gained such Roadway that
the persons in the third story front
offices were obliged to make
their exit through the windows by the aid
OF the firemen's ladders. Miss Hattie
Duke, a stcnographer, was nearly suffocat-
ed and was borne insensible down the lad.
der. The girls rescucr, a fireman named
Patrick Lynch nearly lost his own life in
saving hers. The loss is about $35 900;
insurance, $25, 900. The origin of the fire
in a mystery. Foster says the structure
will be rebuilt and enlarged.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

Stephen A. Douglas, tho son of his
famous father, used to be known on
the prairies as "high roller" but of
late he has worn little bow Of blue
ribbon on his coat lapel, and he now
and then gives a supplementary tenn.
perance talk to Francis Murphy's
temperance congregation.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

difficulties. OF these difficulties, the
backwardness OF Sicily and the
Southern provinces generally is. per-
haps, the greatest. But think, on the
whole, Italy has lever dangers to face than
any other OF the great powers. l am con.
WINGED that she is making more rapid prog.
oil course, Of Russia, which has the advan-
tage OF being, territorially considered, a.
most second to the United States. Avast
advance has been made OF late in educa.
ton and manufactures by tho suppression
OF brigandage. While good deal remains
to be done, more has been done in Italy in
the last sixteen years than is generally &C.
knowledged or believed.
Great Britain Cannot be Made Confederation
In a lecture ut Cornell university, Prof.
Goodwin Smith replied to the question,
"Why should not Ireland have home
ruler" as follows:
We English are not a confederation, and
you cannot make us q confederation with.
out totally altering or subverting the Brit
ish constitution. without doing away with
the sovereign power OF parliament and
without making Scotland, Ireland and
Wales each a state. Even if so fundament.
al revolution should be thought OF thee ON.
ponent parts of the United Kingdom would
not be fit for federal union. That requires q
group OF equally powerful states and by
such confederation you would have Ire:
land, Scotland and Wales in cabal against
England. He regarded the outlook Tor the
British nation rs not very bright. Peo:
pie begin to talk OF terrible things mas
much as the English nation has slidden
unconsciously into democracy without re-
vising her constitution and with no SAFE
guards. Political wisdom seems now at a
low ebb, and the traditional good sense OF
the English people can only be looked for
to tide the ship OF state through the pres
ent crisis.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

1t is estimated that over /, 6O0loco-
motives were built in tho United
States during thepastyear. They cost
about $15,O 100000 The number Of
locomotives smashed up is not given
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05
Letter from Roscoe Conklinx.

At the banquet OF the American Club OF
anniversaryo of the birth of Gen. Grant,
9th ult., a letter of regret was read from
ex-senator Conkling, in which he said:
Reasons which for several years have i'm.
posed abstinence in all cases from political
and other public occasions compelled me
to state my inability to be present. l
must deny myself the pleasure. To
Join In paying honor to the memory
OF man so i!lustrious and so true to his
country and his friends, 80 firm-set, so
calm and enduring under calumny, suffer-
ing and sorrow, would be q mournful and
grateful privilege. should feel at homo
in doing so with those who did not wait
Tor the glorification OF his death to show
them the rugged granduer of Grant or the
honesty OF his purpose and his reverence
Tor the rights OF every fellow creature. 1.-The
reassemble in battle array" The party he
led to victories, victories perhaps not less
useful than those OF war, has not
disbanded, though it may not have
kept step in the march of events.
All who believed in it and stroye
for it would like to see the prowess
and the earnestness which made and kept
it great and useful and triumphant 1.-The
survival of the fittest" among the politi.
SssA AS0uA AtbVAOu6 uOW ASKING pubic CONfl-
denco might be realized by the revival OF
the Republican party, provided it can dis
cover the questions deserving OF attention,
take the right side OF them, and then act
up to it's convictions. Some such thing
may be considered at your proposed din.
ner; it would surely not be inappropriate
to Grants birthday. Indeed, one way in
which his country men may do homage to
his memory is to lay to heart such lessons
as his deeds, his words and his experie nee
have left us.
F. B. Kline sold his half.section of land
in ID and Ii, town of Window, to Mat.
thias Mechenich of Washington county.
Wis.,, for $4,000.
Grenada, Miss, was thrown into a state
OF excitement when Capt. B. fowler a tray
cling salesman for Schmidt & Seieler OF
New Orleans, shot and fatally wounded G.
$: Stives, rector OF the Episcopal church.
The shooting occurred in TOWERS house.
The cause is unknown, as neither party has
said anything about the affair. Stivers,
expecting to die made confession in which
he stated that fowler was justified, and
did not want him punished.
James G. Blaine has arrived home some
what weakned by his western experiences.
Hon. Charles Atkinson, founder of the
city Moline, Ill.,. died of a complication OF
diseases, aged seyenty.nine. He was born
in Sewburyport, Mass: He was com.
mandina figure In Moline manufacturing.
educational and religious welfare,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

been found to be DR.. Charles f. Sayles OF
| valley City, Oak, until Marc 1G a member
OF the firm of Farmhouse g. Sayles, gem
! eral merchants. He was insane. Say les
leaves wife and two children ut Valley
| City.
DIR. Edward Hass, a st. Louis oc,,list OF
some repute, blew his brains out. Cause, i'll
health.
James Il. Riley. Wholesale boot and shoe
dealer OF Louisville, has assigned. Liabili-
| ties, 500, 600.
1t has come to be pretty generally &C.
&C 2ted as IL fact in Milwaukee that Roswell
Miller is to be the next president of the St.
Paul railway, and it may be added, Mil
waukee people and western people general.
y who are interested in the great railway
system arc pleased with the prospect.
A fire started in Marcher's frame building
on Pierre street, at Pierre, Oak, and con.
sumed that suiltling Reeds meet market.
| and NJ. J. Baird's sta tionery house. Total
loss, SO, 900.
The late DR.. Allen T. Moore OF Cleveland
although only ~ years old, was acknowl-
edged to be one OF the best microscopists
on the continent. He WAS the son OF Col.
Moore, U. S. A.
The postmaster at Sioux Falls, Dak has
applied for the establishment OF q FREQ de-
has ordered an inspector to go there and
ascertain il the town is entitled to the SER
vice.
Postofices established Dakota: Wood
bridge, Cavalier county. Discontinued
Iowa: Belvidere, Monona county.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed
Minnesota: Cerro Gordo, C. f. Histad.
Iowa: Oneida, J. r. Mullen. Montana:
Ubet J. r. Barrows.
The Murray iron Works at Burlington.
Iowa, burned. Loss, SAC, insurance
e-third.
Seven hundred wood carvers employed,
BY furniture manufacturer in CHICAGO
struck for nine homework instead vi ten
and NO reduction in wages.
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that the death of NeIs johnson was cau4ed
by Eli Nelson.
At Winona, John Olhofi, an cmployc Of
the Empire Lumber company was run
over and Instantly killed.
j. Hayward. of st. Cloud, has sold l75.-
600 worth OF standing pine to the 1tasca
Lumber company of Chicago. 1t is all in
one township tributary to the Willow
river.
The Congregational church at Monte.
video has called Rev. J. c. J. Rice OF ODER
lin to become its pastor
At Marshall Carrot De Wrinkle, who shot
Joe Swift on July 4. was indicted by the
jury for murder in the first degree He
will he tried shortly.
Perham Special: A. Warmers two-story
saloon building was destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Warner and two children were lower
cd from the buildn. by ropes. The large
cooper shop OF the Prairie Mills company
and the large business house and residence
OF l.. Rusch were also burned.
At Winona L. J. Robinson, general mcr-
chandisc, has assigned to II. J. Keith,
deputy register of deeds The assignment
forced by an attachment from Wyman.
Mull~n e. Co. of Minneapolis. The assets,
according to Mr.. Robinson's affirmation,
equal $1,000 and the Liabilities exceed
$4,000.
The supreme court hands down a decision
III the case OF the Villages OF Plainview and
Elsin vs.. The Winona & st. Peter Railroad.
1t is in favor Of the towns.
John w. O'Connor charged with bur
e)arizing the Minneapolis postofiicc, arriv-
ell from Chicogo and took quarters in the
Ramsey county Jail.
At Austin a stock company has been
~A~s- Ia
Shepard. 6. Schlender. N. Kingsley, F. 1.
Crane and C. II. Davidson, with capital
OF 500, 900, to develop the Austin clay
beds. b"
J. Z. Vests tenement block in the west
part OF the city OF st. Cloud was buried.
Loss. s., 900; Insurance 81, $50.
The Albert Lea creamery will commence
business about the middle OF May.
Miss Clara MICKEY of Greenvale, and
Edward Carson OF Hastings, were. adjudg.
ed insane by the probate court.